# Sending a midi note to ableton also plays the note with the built in sonic pi piano synth

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**Created:** [May 2, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sending-a-midi-note-to-ableton-also-plays-the-note-with-the-built-in-sonic-pi-piano-synth/6742 "2022-05-02T19:30:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![emil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@emil](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/emil)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sending-a-midi-note-to-ableton-also-plays-the-note-with-the-built-in-sonic-pi-piano-synth/6742/1 "2022-05-02T19:30:55Z")

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Hey there, im pretty new to sonic pi so the solution to this is very likely super simple, but i cant figure it out.  
Im trying to send notes to a vst running in ableton via `midi play (note), channel: 1`  
Sending the midi note is working and the note is playing on my vst, but its also playing on the standard sonic pi piano synth for whatever reason. i cant get it to stop and im not even using `use_synth` or anything in my code. Running v3.3.1 on Windows 10  
would greatly appreciate help as this is annoying as hell, thank you

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**Author:** ![robin.newman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@robin.newman](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/robin.newman)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sending-a-midi-note-to-ableton-also-plays-the-note-with-the-built-in-sonic-pi-piano-synth/6742/2 "2022-05-02T21:49:16Z")

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Hi emil  
You don’t want the word play. Just use  
`midi :c4,channel: 1` for example or  
`midi 72,channel: 1`

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**Author:** ![nlb](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/nlb/32/997_2.png) [@nlb](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/nlb)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sending-a-midi-note-to-ableton-also-plays-the-note-with-the-built-in-sonic-pi-piano-synth/6742/3 "2022-05-03T05:31:12Z")

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Hi

It is not the built in piano sound provided within sonic pi.  
The piano sound comes from the internal midi synth embed into the audio card “microsoft\_gs\_wavetable\_synth\_0”.

So to me you need to set the port you want to send your midi note message, not only the channel.

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/sonic_pi/original/2X/c/c1b389c935cd6655462a3dd9851d52e88e956e0f.png)

Here `loopmidi__01_2` is a midi port created by the software loopMidi.  
hope it helps